Sophocles - Oedipus Rex

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The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!

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I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours.

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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Look upon Oedipus
This is the king who solved the famous riddle [of the Sphinx].

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Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

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Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing, When no life moves in the empty passageways.

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